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Chalk this onto your must-have holiday gift lists: Barneys released this product image of a Hoorsenbuhs ring from a collection of items by music mogul Jay-Z, who has partnered with Barneys to offer limited-edition designs for the holidays. A quarter of sales will go to Jay-Z's Shawn Carter Foundation, which helps low-income students cover college costs. The Jay-Z collection will be available beginning Nov. 20.
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Welcome to the revamped "Headlines Northwest," a weekday digest of stories from around the Pacific Northwest region. You're busy, we get it. This is the place to come for a sense of what's making news and sparking conversations from Midnight, Idaho, to Bluelight, Wash., and from Woodchopper, Alaska, to Deadwood, Oregon, and to Woodfibre, B.C., and every point in between.

Let's roll.

First, the trash talking. About Seattle.

Stumptown may be the Emerald City's pip-squeak sister -- less urban, less grand, less flannely -- but we are also greener, almost FIVE MORE POINTS, in fact. Don't take my word for it. The American Council for an Energy-Efficient Economy has compared what 34 of the nation's largest cities are doing to save energy and costs in five key areas.

The MacArthur grant -- $625,000 over five years -- "makes it much easier for me to get the message out," Stock said in an interview Tuesday. "I've been writing for years about the connection between immigration and national security and how, after 9/11, we looked at it the wrong way. We looked at it as, we need to keep people out of the United States to be safe, and what we really needed to do was think about letting the right people in to make us safer."

Thought-provoking ideas. What do you make of them?

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